I was wondering, is using 'aru' and 'iru' at the end of sentences,the same as saying that something is what it is? Is it always the same as with adjectives? For example, the car is red. *knows that I worded the question wrong*

Well i am only taking a stab in the dark at this but I know that there is a present-negative verb tense (though I haven't gotten to verb conjugations yet to give an example.) I believe that you would use the same sentence but change the verb to that tense...

sakura wrote:I have a question. What if something was dead? Like if a cat was 'not living' anymore. Would I say that it is now inanimate and then use aru?

Do you have an example of the sentence you want to make?

Watashi no neko ga shinde imasu.My cat is dead.

Watashi no neko ga ikite imasen.My cat is not alive.

Other than these, you probably won't have much to say about your dead cat, unless your dead cat's corpse is involved, but this is getting a bit macabre.

Diggity wrote:Well i am only taking a stab in the dark at this but I know that there is a present-negative verb tense (though I haven't gotten to verb conjugations yet to give an example.) I believe that you would use the same sentence but change the verb to that tense...

FIRSTLY in the sense of referring to alive or dead objects.
eg Neko ga iru (there is a cat)
otooto ga iru (I have a brother)
ringo ga aru (there is an apple)

SECONDLY they vairy in the sense of reffering to the condition of an object.
te iru is used with intransitive verbs and te aru is used with transitive verbs.
eg Doa ga aite iru (the door is open)
Doa ga akete aru (someone has left the door open).
Both indicate an object is in a certain condition but te aru points to the fact that someone has left it like that.

I find the second version harder to fully understand. But there are probably many more I haven`t encountered yet.